yeah yeah, my mum found it a real joy with chronic ME, and i hardly think jordan is seen as a threat to world peace, weak penge, weak!

Yes, but the point is that at the time noone knew that Britain had contrived a plan to invade Egypt. What the rest of the world saw was Britain attempting to stop serious conflict between the opposing forces of Egypt and Israel, (and the two countries held serious grievances against each other; for since the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948, Egypt had denied passage through the canal to any Israeli-flagged or Israel-bound ships) and would have none of it. In other words the world (and principally, America) was perfectly happy to allow more fighting and bloodshed between arabs and jews.